The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued at least 40 people in open waters after their boat capsized several miles from a tiny, uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of small boat crossings is down more than 40% this year [Getty Images] Law enforcement activity has been a "key factor" ...

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Fourteen suspected people smugglers have gone on trial in Paris for their role in the worst ever small boats disaster in the English Channel. In November 2021, at least 30 men, women and children ...

Life jackets and other belongings seen on the shore of a beach in northern France from where crossings set off Fourteen suspected people smugglers have gone on trial in Paris for their role in the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The US Coast Guard rescued four people from the Lake Erie break wall near the Small Boat Harbor in Buffalo Saturday night. One person was injured. A spokesperson for the Coast Guard ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth after a boat carrying about 140 migrants was brought ashore in Hampshire. Demonstrators blocked roads in an attempt to stop coaches carrying the migrants ...

National Resistance Forces, fighting for the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG) in Yemen, destroyed a Tufan-1 unmanned attack boat at a Houthi naval outpost on the Yemeni Red Sea coast. The ...

Long before you reach Laconia, there’ll be signs you’re in for something special: You’ll spot the slopes of the White Mountains, blue-green in the distance, then you’ll notice an uptick in the tidy ...

Meta billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is the owner of a two-year-old mega-yacht called Launchpad that is 387 feet long, has a steel hull and is propelled by four engines capable of generating 5,846 ...

A record 230 people on a single people smugglers’ boat have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel, as the government condemned what it described as the “reckless and dangerous tactics” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Johan Forsell has been migration minister, Sweden has seen more people leaving than arriving for the first time in over 50 ...